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Rear Adm. William W. Outerbridge commanded the destroyer USS Ward, which fired America's first shots of World War II by sinking a Japanese midget submarine outside Pearl Harbor on December 7, 1941. He married a Tifton woman and died here in 1986.
William W. Outerbridge, Rear Admiral, USN is a historical marker in Tifton, Tift County. It is one of 10 historical markers documented in Tift County, among 30 historic sites cataloged across the county on Georgia Roam.
The site sits at 31.4534, -83.5105 near Tifton. The nearest cataloged historic site is A.V. "Bubba" Akin (historical marker), about under a tenth of a mile away. Others within a short drive include Henry Tift Myers, John Larkin Wright, Lieutenant Colonel, USAF, and Purple Heart Memorial.
This record is drawn from Georgia historical-marker records. Use the map below for its exact position and turn-by-turn directions.
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